ANTH 1001 : Anthro Test 1 Day 9
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Cuvier- he came up with catastrophism- 1769-1832- an opponent of lamarck, and a firm believer that a species was fixed and they did not change. Was a founder of modern functional anatomy, he was very familiar to the fossil record though so how do you explain the modern era with no counterpart. He is remembered for catastrophism, was that there were world wide events or. Revolutions as he called them that would impact the earth on the small and large scale. They would wipe out all life forms when they happened and even admitted that there were multi creation events if global, but in local revolutions then it would be other animals moving into the area and repopulating the area. Never said it was bible related even though he was creationists. Charles lyell 1797 to 1875, and is known the founder of modern geology. Foremost geologist of his time, and know for his theory of uniformitarianism which is.
